Apparatus for coupling or uncoupling railway rolling-stock.



Patented Apr. 29, I902.

J. JENKINS.

APPARATUS FOR COUPLING OR UNGOUPLING RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK.

(Application filed July 12 1901.)

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. JAMES JENKINS, or CARDIFF, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR COUPLING OR UNCQUI LING RAILWAY ROLLING-STOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Batent N 0'. 698,957, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed July 12,1901.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LJAMES'JENKINS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 40 Richard street, Cathays, Cardiif, England, have invented new and useful Improved Apparatus for Coupling or Uncoupling Railway specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the device for coupling and uncoupling railway-wagons andlike vehicles which have draw-links depending from a hook fitted in the center of the head-stock or buffer beam, for which a patent for Great Britain was granted-to me, dated January 11, 1899, No.

The object .of the present invention is to simplify the aforesaid apparatus,and thereby reduce the cost of construction, and to facilitate its application.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, and to which I hereinafter refer, Figure l is an end view, and Figs. 2 and 3 are part side views, of an ordinary railwaywagon with my invention applied, Fig. 2 showing the apparatus out of action and Fig. 3 showing the coupling raised in position for placing on the hook of an adjacent wagon. Fig. 4 is a side view of parts of two wagons coupled with the mechanism by which the coupling is effected in the positions it would appear before being released after-having placed the link of one vehicle on the d raw-hook of another. Fig. 5 is a plan of parts of two wagons, showing how my invention can be applied if the vehicles should happen to be on a curve in a siding. Figs. 6 and 7 are respectively a plan and a side view of couplinglifter drawn to an enlarged scale.

In the views similar letters refer to similar parts.

dis a rocking shaft that is supported in slotted guides b, which are fixed tothe headstock 0 at a suitable distance apart. The center portion of the shaft a is of larger diameter than the ends, so as to afford increased strength for uniting thereto the lifter d, by which the coupling-chain is raised when the vehicles require-to'be coupled or uncoupled and which is of a form similarto that which is shown in the drawings and described in or on a curve, as shown in Fig. 5.

in the guides b are formed at the forward end, with a semicircular recess, into which the the specification of the aforesaid British Pat- Grit I 0. 69%. of 1899, with stops, as d, and

with the addition of horns, as d In applying my invention when two Vehicles require to'be coupled the shaft a, which is ordinarily in the position shown in Fig. 2, is rotated by one of the handles a being turned down toward the center of the vehicle or by other equivalent means, thereby raising the lifter cl, which at the same time is pushed forward by the horns d pressing against the head-stock c, as shownin dotted lines in Fig. 3, causing the shaft ct to slide along the slots b and'enter the recesses at the forward ends of the guides 19, thereby not only lifting the link 6, but placing it over the hook of the adjacent wagon, onto which it falls as soon as the lifter is released, as shown in Fig. 4, which is effected either manually or automatically by the hook ofone vehicle coming in contactwith the tailpiece (Z of the lifter d on another vehicle when said lifter is placed in the position shown in Fig. 3.

By the manipulation of the shaft a, which may be moved along the slots b either parallel with the end of the vehicle or one end of said shaft moved along one of the slots b in a reverse direction to that which the opposite end of the shaft is moved, the coupling-link e can be placed on the hook of the adjacent vehicle irrespective of their relative positions, The slots shaft a may fall, as hereinbefore described, or one portion only of the shaft may be placed in the recess in one of the guides to facilitate the manipulation of said shaft when the vehicles are to be double-coupled. Said guides have a tumbler b fitted thereto, by which the shaft a is retained at the rear end of the slot when not in use.

When the vehicles require to be uncoupled, the draw-link is raised from the hook of the adjacent wagon in the same manner as when said hook is placed thereon, or, if doublecoupled, one of the horns d may be employed to raise the link of the other vehicle from the hook of its own vehicle.

the upper partof the lifter, and an operatinghandle whereby, on the continued movement of the handlethe links are first raised, the projections are forced against the car-body and the pivoted chain-lifter and chain are forced outward in the slotted guide.

2. Apparatus for coupling railway-cars comprising a pivoted chain-lifter, a slotted guide in which it is mounted, projections'on the upper part of the lifter, and an operatinghandle whereby on the continued movement of the handle the links are first raised, the

' projections are forced against the car-body the lifter and then advancing it on the rotation of the shaft so that the shaft occupies a position in the forward end'of the guide and is retained there by the recess, as and for the purpose described. 7

4. Apparatus for coupling railway cars comprising a pivoted lifter, an operatingshaft for the lifter, a slotted guide therefor oneach side of the car and a recessed outer end to the slides and means for first raising the lifter and then advancing it on the rotation of the shaft so that the shaft occupies a position in the forward end of the guide and is retained there by the recess, in combination with a projection on the under side of the lifter adapted to be acted on by the hook of an approaching car to throw the lifter back out of the recess and permit the lifted link to fall onto the hook, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES JENKINS. lVitnesses:

J OHN P. INGLEDEW,

NORMAN M INGLEDEW. 

